A Wong

What an incredible culinary journey through many regions of China! Thank you Andrew and team for an unforgettable dining experience! The vegetarian tasting menu, in which we tasted 41 different items, was exquisite! There wasn’t a single item we didn’t enjoy, each was infused with unique flavours and textures and the presentation was immaculate - can’t fault any part of our dining experience! And Biraj our lovely waiter was attentive and looked after us warmly. We especially enjoyed speaking with head chef Andrew Wong at the end of the meal, upon request, and learned more about his own journey. We remembered dining at his parents’ Chinese restaurant Kym’s housed at the same location, before Andrew transformed it into a food heaven! And we’ve also enjoyed his collaboration with Oberoi in Delhi at Baoshuan, which also has amazing food!

This is the one and only Two Michelin Stars Chinese restaurant in United Kingdom and I eventual got a chance to visit it for their 32-course tasting menu on their very last day before they commence a complete overhaul to the restaurant that will last for two months. The tasting menu divided into six sections and each was displayed and presented perfectly. As a person born and grown in Hong Kong, I really enjoyed their dishes putting in Western twists but still keeping the traditional Chinese taste. The service there was impeccable. The designated wait staff serving us did a professional job to guide us through every dish on the menu. The sommelier was very knowledgeable and helpful. I’ll definitely come back to see their transformation in two months and hope that they will get the 3-Star honour very soon after.

I took my family here for lunch and we ordered a wide selection of dim sum and other dishes to share. While everything was thoughtfully prepared and well executed, the meal never quite reached the level of excitement we expected from a two-Michelin-star restaurant. Given the reputation/hype and a bill of over $600 for three people, we left feeling underwhelmed by the lunch. Not a particularly memorable dining experience. Extremely overpriced. Save your money!

As a Cantonese diner, I was really looking forward to celebrating my birthday here, especially given the restaurant’s reputation, but the experience did not live up to expectations. While I understand that fine dining often focuses on bite sized portions, the way dishes were served felt poorly thought out. We were sometimes given a single small portion to divide between three, which felt inadequate at this price point and not well considered in terms of how the food should be shared. The food itself was good, but it did not excel in flavour or feel elevated as expected for a restaurant of this calibre. Service was the biggest issue. What should have been a 2.5-3 hour experience stretched to nearly 4 hours due to long delays between courses. Plates were often left for 10 to 15 minutes before being cleared, and overall the service felt inattentive, with little sense of pacing or coordination. As our first two star dining experience, we expected a clear step up in service. While dishes were explained well, the attentiveness and execution did not feel at that level. We had also noted in advance that it was my birthday, but this was not acknowledged at all, which was disappointing. Overall, an underwhelming experience for what was meant to be a special occasion.

I tried so you don’t have to. It’s ok, mid at best really. The tasting menu consists of a lot of courses so you’d definitely get full by the end but quality is not there. Among all the courses, only the charsiu/scallop sando was impressive. Atmosphere really put me off, the servers kept coming around every 15min to interrupting our conversations to promote their lunch menu options for future visits which really got quite annoying after the third time they came around to do this. My take is if you want to satisfy your chinese/asian cravings, go to Joy King Lau/Yiqi/Royal China/Noodle Inn/Xi’an Biang Biang Noodle for great value and quality; if you want more upscale options, Dim Sum Library and Imperial Treasure are great.